Site updates and dev notes — last entry: June 5, 2026. Track ongoing work, fixes, and content restructuring across the site.

Explore active development tasks, site maintenance updates, and planned improvements, followed by completed tasks below.

Custom admin tools for exploring site structure, taxonomy behavior, and a visual archive of published media attachments.

An overview of setting up, securing, and maintaining a self-hosted VPS as the foundation of the site.

Covers key Linux setup tasks, from system updates to service management, forming the backbone of server operations.

Explains how DNS, SSL, and CDNs like Cloudflare optimize site speed, security, and worldwide accessibility.

How WordPress evolved from a casual setup into a structured, scalable content management system.

Custom WordPress code and tweaks hosted on GitHub. Click to view my open-source customizations and plugins.

How I configured my site’s security layers, including firewalls, plugin choices, and practical hardening steps to protect against common attacks.

Covers the tools, techniques, and strategies I use to improve my site’s speed, response time, and overall performance, both on the front end and server side.

Outlines my approach to organizing, optimizing, and integrating images across the site—balancing performance, quality, and long-term maintainability.

A dynamic framework connecting people, ideas, and media through structured tags, custom fields, and semantic relationships across the entire site.

A concise overview of backup approaches, tools, and recovery planning to protect your site from data loss and downtime.

Covers how contact forms and email systems are configured to ensure reliable communication and secure message delivery.

Covers the tools and workflows used to manage, develop, and maintain the site, including Obsidian, VS Code, Git and WP-CLI.

A journey into the heart of code and data—breaking systems down to their roots to master your craft from within.

A visual tour of raw data—how hex reveals the hidden structure behind files, randomness, text, images, and code.

What does your computer really see when it runs a program? Let’s peel back the layers of a simple XOR tool.

A single operator that can encrypt data, reverse strings, and even recover missing values? Welcome to the strange power of XOR.

Using Wireshark, we visualize how data travels through your machine and the network — revealing encapsulation in vivid, byte-level detail.

Most web traffic today is encrypted — but what does that really mean, and what does it protect you from?

GPG reveals the real distinction between cleartext, encoding, and encryption — a perfect entry into the world of modern cryptography.

Even if your web traffic is encrypted, your DNS queries may still leak what sites you visit. Here’s what that looks like—and how to stop it.

How passwords are stored, how hashes work, and why modern systems rely on salts to slow down attackers.

Raw tools like curl, telnet, and netcat let you explore, debug, and defy standards—revealing how systems actually behave.

Snort, ClamAV, and YARA reveal a shared logic between antivirus and network intrusion detection—pattern matching as control, insight, and defense.

I wanted to write an article on open source software, and specifically Linux. Sometimes I forget how deeply I understand these systems—and that many people…

My sites are currently using Wordpress on Apache. It is more efficient on a low-end VPS to use NGINX.

A custom shortcode-powered footnotes system that connects chapters to referenced CPTs like books, concepts, and quotes with anchors.

ChatGPT has empowered me to create a site with more advanced features than I imagined possible. I have a lot of work ahead of me…

A single memory instruction can make GPT-4-turbo more efficient—just ask, and it’ll start using fewer tokens.

Deleted files linger in free space. dev/urandom makes overwriting them easy. cat /dev/urandom > tmp. No paid tools needed—just raw terminal power.

It is very easy to install Open source/free AI software locally. OpenAIs Whisper lets you convert any audio file to text locally. This allows you to keep your files private without having to upload them to a web-based transcriber.

I used Adminer to safely and efficiently replace featured image extensions with .webp in the database, avoiding manual updates while preserving file paths and post associations.

Using dd in Rescue Mode, I cloned my VPS’s disk for a full WordPress backup, ensuring bare-metal recovery.

A breakdown of how my homepage grid reflects the full content lifecycle — from tasks to chapters — using dynamic WordPress structures.

Free 10GB Koofr storage makes encrypted chapter backups easy with rclone. Sync folders, save logs, and automate with aliases.

Learn how to turn styled WordPress cover blocks into crisp images using Safari’s built-in developer tools on macOS.

I recently added my site to Google search console. This tool give you insights into how Google indexes your site and if it sees any issues.

Simple shell script using WP-CLI to instantly create placeholder tasks as blog posts with default images and excerpts.